This Time and Every Time It"s Personal

In case you hadn't noticed this blog is my entirely personal and eclectic view of the world. Organisations I belong to disown me and every word of this thing - long before the cock crows. I blog what I want and I blogit when when I want. I rarely delete comments and will generally carry corrections and observations prominently on request. This time, and every time ... it's personal.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

It's not quite 'weigh the vote'/'donkey with a red rosette' territory, but C&N can fairly be classified as a heartland seat. It is impossible to overstate how catastrophic defeat next Thursday will be for Labour. It would call into question not just New Labour’s arrogant insistence that the stupid proles have nowhere else to go, but the party’s ability ever to form a government again. Yes, it really is as serious as that.

One comment, from the infamously argumentative Andrew Coates, suggests:

Anyway, word I have got is that the working class loathes Brown from the bottom of its heart. Really really hates his tripes. Whether that will be enough to swing this by-election, don't know.

Others point out that mid-third-term this is just the kind of seat that any government stands to lose in a by-election. What does the panel think?

HAMES ON TORIES IN C & N: On the Crewe and Nantwich by-election “Save the poor, vote Tory” has the ring of “Save the whale, vote Harpoonist” about it. -Tim Hames, The Times, 12 May 2008. Hat tip: Cole Not Dole.

"Others point out that mid-third-term this is just the kind of seat that any government stands to lose in a by-election....."

What!? The I65th most marginal seat on the Conservatives' target list? You expect Labour to lose that in a by-election? Particularly when it had been held by the venerable and respected (on all sides) Gwyneth Dunwoody?

They are 'avin a larf, my son. There's spin, Chris, and there's being bloody stupid.

(Whoops, another fiver goes to my wife who is, as I write, walking the Moonwalk in London and raising money for breast cancer research.)